What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children

Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by Manuel_D on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:52PM (#50458509)

The point is, men are violently victimized at 2-3x the rate of women. This is pretty consistent across all countries. If being victims of violence rewires someone's brain to be more afraid, we'd expect men to be more concerned for their safety than women.

The reality is that the gender disparity on fear of violence exists despite women being significantly less likely to be violently victimized. Women are just more risk adverse in general.

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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by pyth0 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:34PM (#50459751)

The 2-3x figure is about "homicide" not "nonfatal violence" which this thread has been about. And for non-fatal violence, at least in the US, the numbers put the rates of female victimization higher (although quite close) than male victimization [1]. It does seem to be true that in general, women report more fear than their raw victimization rates would predict, but this is more understandable once you recognize that the specific forms of violence experienced by men and women are usually different: for women it’s far more often a partner, someone they know, or sexual violence [2].

[1] https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv23.pdf

[2] https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080923133123/ht...

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